There are educators everywhere working to teach the next generation of sustainability minded students. Whether in formal settings (K-12, undergraduate, graduate) settings or informally as science communication now it is more important than ever to work towards advancing Conservation Tech education.
The United Nations released the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) which have served as a framework for educators in this space. Educating with a sustainable focus is a challenge whether you are interested in engineering, public policy, AI, or behavioral biology and we hope that this group will help you grow and exchange your ideas with other current and future educators.
This WILDLABS group has been set up by folks who are working to develop education toolkits, platforms, modules, and more in the conservation space. These tools can be at any level of development.
We hope you will become part of this group to share case studies, exchange ideas, and work towards developing a curriculum for future conservation tool crafters.
Current Examples of Conservation Tech Education Resources:
CV4Ecology Summer Workshop:
- Website for Summer Camp Information,
- Applications Due December 15th for next cohort
- 2022 Material including Syllabus, Lectures, Invited Talks, Final Presentations
Tech Tutors from WILDLABS
- TechTutors Season 1, WILDLABS
- TechTutors Season 2, WILDLABS
- TechTutors Season 3, WILDLABS
Want to know more about Conservation Technology education resources? Make sure to join the conversation in the WILDLABS Conservation Tech Training and Education group.
Additional Conservation Tech Courses:
- Tech4Wildlife @ Georgia Tech – Interdisciplinary and Project Based course on Conservation Technology
- MSc Wildlife Conservation Tech – Liverpool John Moores University Program
Group curators
- @StreamingScience
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Georgia Institute of Technology
Andrew’s always looking to find new interdisciplinary teams in the conservation tech space. He is a postdoctoral researcher at Max Planck Institute, who completed his PhD at Georgia Tech in 2022. His interests including conservation tech education and engineering work.
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- @sstathat
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Suzanne’s drive to protect the natural world led her to graduate school at Caltech. She is a Computing and Mathematical Sciences PhD student, advised by Pietro Perona. Her interests include leveraging machine learning and computer vision techniques to solve ecological problems.
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- @cshriver
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Georgia Institute of Technology
PhD student in Quantitative Biosciences
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Asst. Prof @ MIT with research at the intersection of computer vision, biodiversity monitoring, conservation, and sustainability.
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- @HollyCormack
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Biodiversity Knowledge Management Intern at the Biodiversity Consultancy Ltd
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- 5 Discussions
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Over 35 years of experience in biodiversity conservation worldwide, largely focused on forests, rewilding and conservation technology. I run my own business assisting nonprofits and agencies in the conservation community
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- @roxirisa
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Biologist I consider myself a data scientist with a passion for nature and with an extensive experience in species distribution modeling, handling large data sets from different sources such as gbif, eBird, xeno-canto, Worldclim, Terraclimate, ocean color e NASA among others. But
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Environmentalist and Python developer working in the realm of Remote Sensing. Fascinated by the intersection of technology and nature, with a focus on machine learning, ecological modeling, and biodiversity monitoring. 🌍
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- @KimLane
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Sustainability Manager for CERES Tag LTD. An animal health company; animal monitoring, conservation, & anti-poaching/ rural crime. Wildlife, livestock, equine & companion. #CeresTrace #CeresWild #CeresRanch #SalusPet
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- @snapshot_serengeti
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Fauna & Flora
Conservation, Innovation, Education
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- @Fatuma
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I aim to transition my career towards conservation technology after gaining two years of experience in the tech industry.
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- @leonardoscarpa
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I'm Leonardo, I'm a biologist, and I'm passionate about movement ecology. Another of my hobbies is GIS. I have a master's degree in this topic, which I complement with the use of technology such as drones, camera traps and acoustic receivers
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Wildlife Drones
Wildlife Drones has developed the world’s most innovative radio animal-tracking system using drones so you can track your radio-tagged animals like never before.
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- @eccrc25
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- @mariammatta
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WWF Education for Nature 2024 Fellowships and Grants Info Session
21 November 2023 2:40pm
WWF's Education for Nature Fellowships and Grants are now open
21 November 2023 2:37pm
Insight; a secure online platform designed for sharing experiences of conservation tool use.
7 November 2023 1:01pm
A secure platform designed for those working to monitor & protect natural resources. Insight facilitates sharing experience, knowledge & tools to increase efficiency & effectiveness in conservation. By sharing we reduce time & money spent to find, test, & implement solutions.
Virtual Reality (VR) in Climate Change & Conservation Education
25 October 2023 10:43am
Restoring the Mara Elephant Population Using Coexistence Tech Solutions with Mara Elephant Project's Wilson Sairowua
20 October 2023 1:31pm
Monitoring and Evaluation for Wildlife Conservation
18 October 2023 2:22pm
Digital Disruption for Conservation Toolkit
22 September 2023 12:18pm
Made available by the Digital Disruption and the Future of Conservation project team at Unearthodox, the toolkit provides conservation practitioners with a comprehensive introduction to Web 3.0 and AI concepts and their potential use for nature conservation.
DSAIL Tech4Wildlife Workshop Tutorials Now Available!
20 September 2023 12:22pm
Predator Monitoring & Community Conservation within the Greater Mara Ecosystem
13 September 2023 10:22am
Looking for Opportunities to Shadow Field Technologists in Southeast Asia
13 September 2023 4:11am
IDEA WILD Equipment Support Applications Now Open
11 September 2023 2:31pm
Where to start in ct ?
1 September 2023 2:50pm
2 September 2023 6:14am
Very helpful, thank you. One more thing, are there any broad skills that apply to all areas of conservation tech that may be helpful to learn/improve, e.g data analysis?
DSAIL Tech4Wildlife Workshop
1 September 2023 11:32am
26 September 2023 6:54am
26 September 2023 9:19am
How to report on biodiversity impacts at scale for TNFD
24 August 2023 12:41pm
Club Arribada: Empowering Future Leaders with Conservation Tech Opportunities
11 August 2023 9:18pm
2024 Student Conference on Conservation Science
26 July 2023 12:27pm
Interested in being part of the Enduata Emaa CBO's Green Planet Ambassadors Project in Amboseli?
5 July 2023 10:28am
25 July 2023 1:14pm
@richardturere Hello :) and a warm welcome to WILDLABS! Here is the link to @Lekato Samuel Lekato - Founder and Chairman, Enduata Emaa CBO. Sam is interested in conservation technology focused on how to keep wild animals away from community homesteads in Amboseli and I reckon your Lion Lights could help. I'll let you two take on the conversation from here. Thanks!
Spatial Monitoring and Reporting Tool (SMART) Impact & Learning Intern
24 July 2023 5:23pm
Deadline Approaching: GIS Capacity Internship
24 July 2023 5:18pm
Want to learn how to report on #ClimateChange? Here's a Free BBC Media Action Course
21 July 2023 11:46am
Renew Capital launches Renew Venture Lab
19 July 2023 1:58pm
Wildlife Conservation Drones & Technologies Summit 2023
16 July 2023 10:04pm
Stakeholder Engagement for Wildlife Conservation
13 July 2023 4:57pm
Grant Writing for Wildlife Conservation
13 July 2023 4:43pm
Case study: Juicy Marbles. 3 business hacks to learn for your nature NGO or business from the rising plant meat star.
7 July 2023 8:38am
Before we start.
1. I don't get paid for this. I think they just got plenty of best practices for us we can use to combat the biodiversity crisis.
2. What has plant meat to do with biodiversity? Actually, a lot. Livestock production is the single most significant driver of habitat loss.
But here the hacks.
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Looking for partner_Project in Madagascar
8 December 2022 6:12pm
12 December 2022 3:57pm
Salama Ny Aina! And misoatra betsaka to Andrew for mentioning me! I do passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) in Madagascar, focused on lemurs now but hoping to bring in collaborators for other taxa as well as whole-soundscape analyses. I mostly work in the southeastern rainforest corridor but have collaborators working in the south and in the Masoala peninsula.
I actually developed a bunch of PAM training materials (in Malagasy, French & English) that can all be found on my website: https://carlybatist.commons.gc.cuny.edu/pam-training/. Feel free to use any of it! There is a video recording from a PAM training workshop I did at Centre ValBio as well as the slides from the presentation, a list of papers representing different case studies, lots of resources, etc.
I would love to chat further if you'd like too! Feel free to reach out: [email protected]. Veloma for now :)
27 June 2023 12:43pm
Thank you all for your response.
The idea is one training per year (2-3 days). Topic will vary depending likely. My first idea is something such GIS for conservation or remote sensing for example.
The PAM looks great. I will send you an email.
1 July 2023 4:56am
Hi Ny Aina, @StephODonnell and I run a Women in Conservation Technology training program for women in East Africa (to date, we've worked with Kenyan and Tanzanian students). I'd be happy to talk through our process if you're interested!
You are protecting & restoring nature, but no one cares. 4 hacks to change it.
30 June 2023 3:18pm
You are protecting & restoring nature, but no one cares. 4 hacks to change it.
No matter if you do biodiversity monitoring, coral gardening, mangrove plantation, animal GPS tracking, rewilding, etc. you want people to care about this issue as much as you do.
But by now, you realize you don’t get the attention or the financial support you hoped for.
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The role of low-code Earth observation tools in accelerating the sustainability transition
30 June 2023 2:13pm
We've published a paper on the role of low-code Earth observation tools in the sustainability transition. It covers how different roles in a business like analysts and executives can benefit from this tech and how it can be applied to ESG, Nature Based Solutions and insurance and finance.
2 September 2023 12:53am
Hi Lucas.
I can understand that there are a lot of technologies being thrown around and it can be confusing about what is really needed. I recommend to first select an area of conservation you want to focus in, ie: ecological restoration, soil conservation, wildlife management, etc. Based on that decision, look at what technologies are available that can potential help in that field. We do a lot of work in ecological restoration and find that long term, longitudinal monitoring of conservation reserves are important. Because of that, we use a lot of datalogging and wireless communications to monitor remote locations. If you're interested in invasive species management, you might be drawn towards wildlife tracking (movement ecology), trap monitoring, drones, etc.
The technology is a tool, and you should look at it like field gear. The gear will change depending on what you're setting out to do and the tool is supposed to make your life easier, not harder :)
Hope that helps.
Akiba